Hurby Azor
Birth nameHerby Azor[1]
Also known as
  • Hurby Luv Bug
  • Hurby's Machine
  • Fingerprints
Born1965 (age 58–59)[1]
Port-de-Paix, Haiti
OriginNew York City, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • producer
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • keyboard
Years active1982–present

Hurby "Luv Bug" Azor (born 1965),[1] also known as Fingerprints, is a Haitian musician and hip-hop music producer. He is best known for discovering and producing the hip-hop trio Salt-N-Pepa and the rap duo Kid 'n Play.

Early life

Born in Port-de-Paix, Azor is Haitian.[2]

Career

In late 1985, with the rise of hip-hop response records all the rage, Azor and the group Salt-N-Pepa (then known as Super Nature) recorded a response to Doug E. Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew's "The Show" called "The Show Stoppa". He also went on to produce Dana Dane, Sweet Tee, Kwamé and others.

Azor wrote and performed in Salt-N-Pepa's music video for "Push It", on keyboards and backup vocals, and also wrote the trio's song "Let's Talk About Sex", among others. In 1995, he co-wrote and produced Snow's single "Anything for You", which became the top-selling single in Jamaica that year.[3]

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 3 Iton, R. (2008). In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era. Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities. Oxford University Press. p. 394. ISBN 978-0-19-972083-5. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Notable Haitians". Archived from the original on March 26, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
  3. ↑ Jamaican sales and charting data for "Anything for You" can be found in O'Brien Chang, Kevin and Chen, Wayne (1998) Reggae Routes: The Story of Jamaican music. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. p. 211. ISBN 1566396298


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